Good to be home in warm Tucson! I’ve finished up the trip list from Nebraska, and anyone interested in seeing a copy is welcome to send me a note at birding@birdaz.com.
It would be invidious to pick out a single “highlight” from such a great tour, but here are a few of my favorites from this year’s trip:
Trumpeter Swan
Greater […]

A dark, windy, stormy morning in southeast Nebraska. I picked up Carolyn and Ruth early, then swung by to meet Darlene at her hotel for this “clean-up” day after a great tour. Since my plane left in the early afternoon, we decided to concentrate on areas near Omaha.
The south shore of the Platte River, in Cass […]

The end of March is at the cusp of arrival and departure for many species on the Great Plains, and it’s hard to schedule a trip to take advantage of both. We arrived back in Omaha late yesterday afternoon, and allowed ourselves the luxury of late rising this morning before heading down to Cass County […]

We’ve crisscrossed the time zones so often in the last 24 hours that I didn’t even know what time it was when I got up; but it doesn’t much matter that early in the morning in any case! Mitch (www.sandhillsmotel.com) loaded us up at 4, Mountain Time, I guess, for the drive north of Mullen […]

A lovely drive across the Nebraska Sandhills to Mullen, our admiration of the landscape for the most part uninterrupted by birds. It’s just plain windy out there today! There was a tense moment when a lone Greater Prairie-Chicken blew across the road, giving good views to those of us in the front of the vehicle and no views […]